Talk:Hatch Act of 1939

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[edit] Citation needed

Suggest we add a legal citation to the actual text of the act and implementing regulations

I'll try and do some research and clean up when I can but there are some serious issues with the secton on "Hatch DOs and DON'Ts". Several of them are contradictory and don't make sense. InnerSpace 19:24, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Where's the stuff about using private email servers?

Underreported news story today is that the White House conveniently lost a bunch of crucial emails that had been kept on RNC servers rather than whitehouse.gov. Supposedly that storage is a violation of the Hatch Act. But I don't see anything about that here. 66.27.69.167 16:00, 12 April 2007 (UTC) Aknaton

[edit] Possible Plagerism

Couldn't help noticing that some of the contents of the article match text from a government textbook companion site. The site has since been taken down, so check out http://web.archive.org/web/20050407204834/http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_040900_hatchact.htm The section is question matches word for word:

Although criticism of wpa workers centered on Kentucky, Tennessee, and Maryland, the political clout of federal dollars nationwide in the midst of the depression was undeniable; even without malfeasance, programs like the wpa attracted votes. Many Republicans, however, were convinced that wpa workers had gone further, intimidating staff members, pressuring clients, and using public funds for political purposes.

At least a citation is needed but I think further action should be taken. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.70.15.164 (talk) 02:13, 7 April 2008 (UTC)